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“Nothing is funnier than suffering”. Sport as a comic and perverse aesthetic practice

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Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 81 - 95

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The article takes up diverse strands of psychoanalytic thinking to investigate how desire is manifested in male team sporting environments. In particular, it is posited that sporting desire shares a remarkable structural similarity to the joking relationship in that they both work through the overco...

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ISSN: 1751-1321 1751-133X
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